When the KitKat 4.4 update came out for the Samsung devices it brought with it some superb features and it also managed to clean up the reputations of the devices too, according to a new report.
Apparently the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Note 3 have been put through some tests which compare the performance of the devices before and after the update. It seems that now they are not fudging their answers.
Samsung didn’t come out on top last year when they launched their flagship handsets, which were acclaimed to be among some of the most powerful ever and which behaved oddly when they were running common benchmark apps.
Samsung were goading their devices to run hot, which is often known as overclocking, during benchmarks. This made sure that the results were 20% higher than if the device had been running at normal frequency and so inflated the position of Samsung for building phones that are powerful.
“The maximum GPU frequencies for the Galaxy S4 have been varied to provide optimal user experience for our customers,” a Samsung spokesperson said in a statement at the time, “and were not intended to improve certain benchmark results.”
Ars Technica went through the coding that Samsung had pushed out with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note and noticed that the list of apps had gone. The phones performance in single core and multi core tests were diminished and gave people a more accurate picture of the capabilities of the device when using it every day.
It also seems that some other handset makers pulled similar tricks last year and only Motorola and Google played fair.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is on sale11 April last year and will have the KitKat 4.4 OS along with TouchWiz interface.
